Iran: Search for lost dog leads to arrest

AdnKronOs ^ | 08/03/07 | None listed

[JCG]

Tehran, 3 August (AKI) - A young Iranian who was searching for his lost puppy in a Tehran neighborhood has been arrested and ordered to stand trial for 'moral corruption'.

According to the Tehran daily, Etemad Melli, the young man was caught while putting up a notice in which he was promising a reward to anyone who found his dog.

"Looking for a lost dog indicates the spread of a corrupt culture, which indirectly popularises keeping a dog at home, something that is completely foreign to the culture and Isamic tradition," said Tehran police spokesman, Mehdi Ahmadi.

"In arresting this young man, we wanted to send a very clear message to our young people, you need to steer away from the corrupt culture imported from the west."

[JCG]

Michael Vick will probably do less time than this kid.

[tet68]

Damn the mullahs.

[SIDENET]

"Looking for a lost dog indicates the spread of a corrupt culture, which indirectly popularises keeping a dog at home, something that is completely foreign to the culture and Islamic tradition,"

That says more than enough about their "culture and tradition".

[misterrob]

Rampant cruelty and injustice will lead to a government’s demise.

[cripplecreek]

There’s something fundamentally wrong with people who don’t like dogs.

[SIDENET]

On a side note, does anyone want to take bets on how long it will be before the Islamists in the UK start griping about being “offended” by dogs there?

[csvset]

I'll get you my fine pretty, and your little dog too!

Islam, it's not a religion, it's a disease.

[Joan Kerrey]

There’s something fundamentally wrong with people who don’t like dogs. ================= Well stated!!!!!!

[Joan Kerrey]

There’s something fundamentally wrong with people who don’t like dogs. ================= Well stated!!!!!!

[Nathan Zachary]

"Bukhari:V1B4N174 "During the lifetime of Allah's Apostle dogs used to pass through and urinate in the mosque. Nevertheless they never used to sprinkle water on it."

Smart dogs.

[VeritatisSplendor]

This isn’t satire?

Could he get away with it if it was a Saluki/Afghan/Rampur/Persian greyhound? Or would he have to be a member of the nobility with his own hunting preserve?

Mrs VS

[Brilliant]

I hear that pigs make good pets.

[Brilliant]

The link doesn’t suggest satire. But these days, you can’t tell the difference.

[SIDENET]

Could he get away with it if it was a Saluki/Afghan/Rampur/Persian greyhound?

IIRC, Salukis have a special status in Islam, but even they aren't to be kept as pets.

[Red Badger]

Having a dog as a pet is against the Koran?.........My, what would they think of a pot bellied pig?........

[Lurker]

Rampant cruelty and injustice will lead to a government’s demise.

Yea. It only took Rome 800 years to fall from that.

L:

[RouxStir]

“I hear that pigs make good pets.”

I’d love to be a passenger on a plane when there would be a group of muslims forced to sit near a passenger travelling with their seeing-eye dog or stress-reducing pig.

[sodpoodle]

Problem - Iranian islamofascists
Solution - round up all the vicious Pit Bulls in USA shelters awaiting euthanasia - load into cargo planes - parachute drop into Iran.

Projected outcome: Pro-Western Pro-shah dissidents will know what to do.
Pit bulls will know what to do.

[Ditter]

Dog lover in complete agreement here!

[GBA]

I wonder what the punishment will be. Death by hanging, kneeling for a bullet to the head, being put in a bag and tossed off a cliff, beheading or stoning?